Werner is beneficiary of the voice of reason.
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The argument was much more nuanced than "Werner shouldn't have been there".
It was "Werner was negligent in training and supervising the trainee driver and coerced the trainee driver into driving when he shouldn't have". Werner failed to put forth a decent argument to counter - they relied on the Admission Rule, which is the idea that if an employer admits that an employee was acting in the course and scope of his employment, they can generally prevent plaintiffs from pursuing derivative theories of negligence against the employer. The Admission Rule is far from 'black letter law', and that's how the plaintiff was able to introduce all sorts of spurious proximate causes that muddied the waters.
In short, the plaintiff made the case about Werner's training curriculum and standards, and Werner's lawyers were caught unprepared. They thought they had an easy win based on the facts and paid for it.catent, IH Truck Guy, bzinger and 2 others Thank this. -
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I wonder where that Werner driver is these days.
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